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A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally not access) files outside the designated directory tree.

I was trying to solve the problem mentioned here: Running (X) Xfce4 in Debian chroot
The solution he mentioned was to "bind /run/udev". As far as I see, it is suggested that binding host's /run/udev ...

So I have a 64-bit Linux Mint 17 system and I am trying to set up a chroot environment with a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04-based system (actually something called Vinux, an Ubuntu remix). The problem is that ...

I have got my own initramfs running its own init script. After doing some things, it finally calls switch_root and executes the init script of the system, which is mounted in /mnt.
Now I want to get ...

As the title says. I want to use bindfs (or any viable alternative) to solve the following problem:
I have a local folder that contains a maven project I am working on. However I can only build in a ...

I have a stage 3 gentoo tarball.. extracted it to /mnt which is hosting /dev/sda3. Though there was no bin and no sign of bash after unpacking. Far as I'm aware, the rest of the configuration involves ...

How do I upgrade chroot release on my centos 5 server? I want to install a service that uses a new capability available in later versions (--userspec) of chroot and I can't find any documentation of ...

My goal is installing Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS under Debian 7 wheezy with full GNOME Desktop. I know I can use use tools like VirtualBox etc. but it seems like overhead. To be more precise under this Ubuntu ...

I am trying to set up my Openssh server to allow for chrooted sftp-only users as well as for non-chrooted sftp and ssh users. My condensed (comments and blank lines removed) /etc/ssh/sshd_config looks ...

From a tutorial in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebootstrapChroot at TLDR section i was able to set up a chroot environment for 32 bit Ubuntu ISO image under 64 bit Ubuntu. Now i need to do the ...

I'm attempting to help out a roommate who has installed Kubuntu on his Chromebook using Crouton (it's basically just a fancy chroot run within ChromeOS).
I helped him get the Docker daemon running, ...

I am attempting to update a broken Linux Mint 32 bit installation using chroot from a live cd. Different websites give different folders that need to be mounted before chroot.
The error I am trying ...

I am trying to chroot into an old HD to change a forgotten password,
but chroot says permission denied? what gives? I am root! The harddrive I am trying to chroot into is an old version of edUbuntu ...

I'm trying to create a jail for a user in my server. Let's call the user "juser".
What do I want to achieve? I want an ssh user to be jailed in his home folder and not have any access (whatsoever) on ...

Distribution: Scientific Linux 6.5 (Carbon), not exactly your typical brand of linux.
Tried to chroot a user using these instructions for SSH and quite obviously failed, and now I can't even log in ...